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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Beginnings

What’s well begun, is half done.

Horace.

The principal part of everything is the beginning.

Law Maxim.

Whatever begins, also ends.

Seneca.

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.

Mme. du Deffand.

The beginnings of all things are small.

Cicero.

Still thou knowest that in the ardor of pursuit men lose sight of the goal from which they start.

Schiller.

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.

Ausonius.

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first.

Ovid.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Quintilian.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

Ovid.

Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Ausonius.